Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there were Palestine, and housing, and India-the whole host of postwar posers over whose liquidation Winston Churchill no longer had to preside. Many a Briton who had helped Labor into the driver's seat wondered when, and how, Labor would get going...
...Protected. No Greek would deny that Damaskinos holds his Regency today, and keeps his Government in power, only with the support of the British Army in Greece. On their fateful visit to Athens last December, at the height of the tragic battle between Greek and Greek, and Greek and Briton, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden chose Damaskinos as the one Greek who might save his countrymen from themselves-and who might save Greece for Britain and the western world...
Biggest social event was Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's dreary cocktail party in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. The most conspicuous guests were the broad-shouldered, anonymous young men clustered around Foreign Commissar Molotov. Their hip pockets bulged. Said a Briton: "Damme! Pistols in the House of Lords. Incredible...
...Bell Telephone engineer. They meandered into a movie before driving out to the Bell man's suburban house. Next day, satisfied that they had shaken off any possible spies, they turned up at the Bell Laboratories with the supersecret device that broke the radar bottleneck. The Briton, a member of a radar mission to the U.S., brought designs anda model of an electronic tube called the "magnetron...
Actually the change, if made, would bring few immediate shocks. Throughout the wars, the bank has worked closely with Britain's Government. But a tradition of the Empire, as well as a symbol of free enterprise, would die if the Old Lady joined the Government. Many a Briton hoped that Harold Laski was running years ahead of his socialist brethren...